Image via CrunchBase Self-publishing platform Blurb has launched two new services for authors and businesses, Blurb Magazine and Blurb Brochure. The services will be available via Adobe InDesign plug-in and offer both print-on-demand and e-book formats. The services will eventually be available using Blurb’s publishing tools, but the initial launch is intended to target businesses and photographic…
Self-Publishing Book Expo Highlights Part One | Bookmakingblog
Bookmakingblog has the first of its highlights of last weekends Self-Publishing Book Expo, held in New York. “The saddest faces this year, as in past year, were on authors who paid to exhibit so they could tout and sell their books. These folks get little ‘traffic’ in the exhibit hall compared to service providers. I admire their…
Blurb Adds Enhanced e-Book Tools to Booksmart Software
Blurb’s Free Bookmaking Tools Now Output Rich Media Ebooks in Addition to Printed Books Press release: Blurb®, the creative publishing platform, today announced that new versions of its award-winning BookSmart, Bookify and InDesign® Plug-In creation tools will enable customers to simply and easily convert their new or existing print files to ebooks, adding video, audio…
Indie Publishing Workshop at HNS London | Video by Richard Denning
This video is from the recent Historical Novel Society’s Conference held on September 30th, 2012. The piece features Helen Hollick, a commercially and self-published author, Richard Denning, a self-published author with his own imprint, and Helen Hart, owner and founder of Silverwood Books, a self-publishing service for authors. Related articles Penguin takes Breathing series by…
Is The Photobook The New Self-Publishing Phenomenon?
44.4thFotoWeekDC.Central.18L.NW.WDC.5November2011 (Photo credit: Elvert Barnes) This morning the Independent UK has a piece entitled, Do we still have a thirst for coffee table books? written by Tim Walker. The piece looks at the continued success of the Quarto publishing group, famous for its large-format, illustrated titles and coffee table books. Walker’s piece even goes as…
Pumbo (Netherlands) – Reviewed
Earlier in 2012, I took a look at publishing in the Netherlands, both traditional publishing and self-publishing services. One of the biggest players for independent authors in the Netherlands is online publishing service, Pumbo. The company was formed in 2006 by co-founders Yordy Spoor and Wouter Vink following the success of their web solutions company,…
The American Book Center: Building Writer and Reader Communities with The EBM
For the past two years The American Book Center—with stores in Amsterdam and The Hague in the Netherlands—has had an Espresso Book Machine installed on site. The machine is capable of printing, binding and trimming a paperback book on demand in minutes and is linked to a database of various repositories (including Lightning Source publisher…
Lulu Launch Publishing Advice Tool
Lulu has launched a new service called ‘The Lulu Publishing Advisor‘, a recommendation tool geared to advise authors on their book publishing project. Director of Services at Lulu.com, Sarah Gilbert, described the new service: “The Lulu Publishing Advisor gives authors the advice they wish they’d had before they made a mistake,” says Sarah Gilbert, director…
Guest Post | New Technologies and Self-Publishing: The Pros and Cons by Katheryn Rivas
There’s no doubt about it, we’re neck deep in the Digital Age. With so many aspects of our lives taking place plugged in and online, very few of us can deny that the digital world—once so foreign and unfamiliar—is now different from just the world we live in. Our world—the world of the everyday—is the…
Amazon launches CreateSpace in Europe | The Bookseller
Amazon launches CreateSpace in Europe | The Bookseller “Amazon has launched its CreateSpace today (17th May) in Europe, which means that authors who self-publish in the UK can have their books accessed in European countries and the US. Amazon’s CreateSpace platform, which has been running in the US since 2007, will now allow self-published authors…